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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by RugnirViking on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:30AM (#13669442)
Except that the system being discussed works as if ferrari released their new cars at $5000 -specifically to allow people with less money to afford it-

But released far fewer than people that wanted to buy a ferarri.

naturally a market of dealerships would snap up all the ferraris and sell them and much higher prices right? but that's not quite what ferrari intended when selling their cars at $5000. How they can get the cars into the hands of truly random people instead of always to the dealer is the problem here.

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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by Chris2048 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:14PM (#13681014)
> that's not quite what ferrari intended when selling their cars at $5000

If this is what they intend, they could go about it differently; other posters suggest venues happily allow touts to take the risk away from the venue. A random lottery would be perfectly legal, and allow the ticket distribution to be random, if the venues desired this.

I'd also note, any company that actually did this, might not be able to maintain shareholders, since some companies aren't supposed to be anything but self-interested by design. Bands could always insist, though.

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